Wiener Chronik op. 268 - Johann Strauss II

Wiener Chronik, walzer op. 268 (Vienna Chronicle). Author: Johann Strauss II (1825-1899).

Johann Son's waltz Wiener Chronik was first heard during the 1862 Vienna Carnival, and was composed for the Strauss brothers' Benefit Ball held in the Dianabad-Saal on 3 March that year.
The work is dedicated to Friedrich Uhl (1825-1906), the leading 19th-centurruy journalist, critic and writer on Viennese life, whose regular column in Der Botschafter gave Strauss's waltz its title. The cover illustration of the first piano edition of Wiener Chronik features portraits of those two 'Fathers of the Viennese Waltz', Joseph Lanner (1801-43) and Johann Strauss the Elder, together with the names of some of their best-loved waltzes. Indeed, the Introduction of Wiener Chronik features a quotation from the opening waltz section of Joseph Lanner's Die Schönbrunner, Walzer op. 200. The title-page illustration of the work also includes other names prominent in the history of the Viennese Waltz: the conductor/composers Michael Pamer (1782-1827) and Josef Wilde (1778-1831), the composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837) and the Viennese folk-musician Franz Gruber (1805-70).

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